Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Cheiracanthiidae
Other Common Names
Prowling Spiders, Longlegged Sac Spiders, Sac Spiders
Author
Wagner,1887
Sightings Overview
There have been 165 confirmed sightings of Cheiracanthiidae (Prowling Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on December 4, 2023 by Spider ID member shutout. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 165 sightings because of certain Cheiracanthiidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 13% of the time, Cheiracanthiidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 165)
- Sex: 4 female and 46 male.
- Environment: Cheiracanthiidae has been sighted 40 times outdoors, and 127 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (29). Low foliage (4). High foliage (2). Ground layer (2). Under rock or debris (1). Saltwater (1). Desert area (1).
Location and Range
Cheiracanthiidae (Prowling Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Austria, Canada, Hungary, India, Israel, Macedonia, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United States.
Cheiracanthiidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Cheiracanthiidae has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January: 11
- February: 9
- March: 15
- April: 33
- May: 67
- June: 7
- July: 3
- August: 1
- September: 8
- October: 7
- November:
- December: 4